Themes
The main thematic motif/conflict represented in Antigone.
Human Law vs. Divine Law and Familial Duty
"You chose to live, I chose to die."
Antigone
The structure of Antigone alternates between spoken scenes and choral songs. What are these called?
Odes/Stasimon and Episodes
The first stage of a traditional Greek funeral, where the women of the family are expected to wash, annoint, and mourn the deceased is known as:
Prothesis
Arrogance or overwhelming pride that causes the hero's transgressions against the gods; the tragic flaw.
Hubris
Who does Antigone wed instead of Haemon?
Death
"First, myself, I've got to tell you, I didn't do it, didn't see who did - Be fair, don't take it out on me."
The Sentry/Messenger
The phrase "a corpse for corpses given in return" foreshadows the death(s) of:
Haemon and Eurydice
This entity determines characters' outcomes and reinforces tragic inevitability.
Fate
When Creon holds the corpse of his son, Haemon, and learns of Eurydice's suicide, this is his moment of:
Anagnorisis
The concept of Ate (ruin passed through generations) is represented by:
The familial curse tied to Oedipus.
"Sooner or later, foul is fair, fair is foul to the man the gods will ruin."
The Leader/Chorus
In Creon's first speech, he argues that civic safety and order supersede personal relationships through the extended metaphor:
"Ship of State"
Antigone was performed at the City Dionysia before an audience of citizens living in a newly established democracy in what year/century?
441 BCE
Creon's rigidity, inflexibility, and refusal to adapt his rulings to divine law or public counsel.
Hamartia
Antigone diminishes Creon's god-like authority when she calls him a "mere mortal". This demonstrates what?
Honor to the gods.
Power of the gods.
"Remember we are women, we're not born to contend with men. Then too, we're underlings, ruled by much stronger hands, so we must submit in this, and things still worse."
Ismene
Antigone aligns herself with others that have faced similar tragic outcomes, like Niobe and Lycurgus.
Allusion
Where specifically does the Chorus remain to represent civic stability and public opinion?
The orchestra
Tiresias' prophecy foreshadows Creon's downfall and sufferring and demonstrates a shift in outcome known as:
Peripeteia
What event recalled by Tiresias depicts rejection by the gods?
The burnt sacrifice did not actually burn to consummation.
"I've never wavered from your advice before."
Creon
Tiresias is a blind prophet (seer), but Creon is blinded by his own hubris. This is an example of:
Dramatic Irony
The patron god of Thebes.
Dionysus
Referred to as the 'final movement' in the play.
Exodos